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1 10 Curriculum Connections These tables match Science North s educational programs with the Ontario Science and Technology Curriculum strands and topics for kindergarten to grade 12. N Hands-on school program i Live science show H Special school event N Multimedia experience $ Planetarium program (additional cost) JK to SK Grade Science and Technology Mathematics Health and Physical Activity Level JK / SK NEW! Healthy Me N Colours, Shapes and Patterns N NEW! Healthy Me N Butterflies N I Touch, I Discover Animals N NEW! Science Everywhere i

2 Grades 1 to 8 GRADE Life Systems Structures and Matter and Earth and Space Health and Other LEVEL Mechanisms Energy Systems Physical Education Grade 1 Needs and Materials, Objects Energy in Daily and Seasonal Healthy Living Characteristics of and Everyday Our Lives Changes Living Things Structures NEW! Toying With NEW! Science Air and Water NEW! Healthy Me N Spookerama i Healthy Me N Science N Everywhere i for Life N Seasonal Changes N Bugs and Plants N Seasonal Changes N Seasons $ NEW! Science Everywhere i Grade 2 Growth and Movement Properties of Air and Water in Changes in Animals Liquids and Solids the Environment Toying With Air and Water Air and Spookerama i Science N for Life N Water for Life N NEW! Pushing and Pulling N The Changing Climate Show N 11

3 12 N Hands-on school program i Live science show H Special school event N Multimedia experience $ Planetarium program (additional cost) Grade 3 Growth and Strong and Stable Forces Causing Soils in the Changes in Plants Structures Movement Environment Nature Exchange N Tremendous NEW! Pushing Spookerama i Towers N and Pulling N Bugs and Plants N NEW! Machines Air and Water and Movement i for Life N Light, Forces and Energy in Space $ Grade 4 Habitats and Pulleys and Gears Light and Sound Rocks and Minerals Healthy Living Communities NEW! Animal NEW! Pushing Light, Forces and Lapidary N Healthy Choices N Spookerama i Super-senses! N and Pulling N Energy in Space $ Nature Exchange N NEW! Machines and Movement i NEW! Classifying Aquatic Diversity N Nature Exchange N Grade 5 Human Organ Forces Acting on Properties of and Conservation of Healthy Living Systems Structures and Changes in Energy and Mechanisms Matter Resources Human Organ Tremendous What s the The Changing Healthy Choices N Spookerama i Systems N Towers N Matter? N Climate Show N Light, Forces and Energy in Space $ Wildfires! A 4D Firefighting Adventure N

4 Space Week H Grade 6 Biodiversity Flight Electricity and Space Healthy Living Electrical Devices NEW! Animal Wildfires! NEW! Let s Get Space Exploration N Healthy Choices N How to Create a Super-senses! N A Firefighting Electric! N Science Fair Project N Adventure in 4D N Meet the Nature Exchange N Neighbours $ Spookerama i NEW! Flight! i NEW! Classifying Space Week H Aquatic Diversity N Space Week H Grade 7 Interactions in the Form and Function Pure Substances Heat in the Healthy Living Environment and Mixtures Environment Nature Exchange N Building Challenge: NEW CONTENT Warm and Cold Healthy Choices N How to Create a Mars N Investigative Blooded Animals N Science Fair Project N Science N Space Week H The Changing Spookerama i What s the Climate Show N Matter? N The Flow of Science i Grade 8 Cells Systems in Action Fluids Water Systems Healthy Living 13 Cell Biology N Building Challenge: NEW CONTENT Water in the Healthy Choices N How to Create a Mars N Investigative Environment N Science Fair Project N Science N Space Week H Spookerama i The Flow of Science i

5 14 Grades 9 to 12 N Hands-on school program i Live science show N Multimedia experience H Special school event $ Planetarium program (additional cost) GRADE Biology Earth and Space Chemistry Physics Environmental Science Other Science LEVEL Science Experiences Grade 9 Fish Physiology Between the Stars N Chemistry Lapidary N and EvolutionN 101 i Space Lexicon $ Freshwater Ecology: Wetlands and Space Week H Invertebrates N Grade Molecular Climate Chemistry Mirror, Mirror N Lapidary N 10 Genetics N Experiments N 101 i Fish Physiology The Changing and EvolutionN Climate ShowN

6 Grade Molecular Chemistry Climate Lapidary N 11 Genetics N 101 i Experiments N Fish Physiology and Evolution N Freshwater Ecology: Wetlands and Invertebrates N Freshwater Ecology: Wetlands and Invertebrates N The Changing Climate ShowN Grade Molecular Genetics N Erosion N Chemistry Lapidary N i Lapidary N Between the Stars N 15

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